The House Democratic leader used Equality PAC's National Pride Gala to promise support for trans Americans as the Trump administration escalates attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
If you’re trans, never forget that politicians that are backed by big money will sell you out the second that it’s no longer financially viable to support your rights & existence. The interests of the LGBTQ+ community are incompatible with the corporate world & corporate backed political class.
The interests of the lgbtq+ community may not be a priority for companies, and if they think they’ll lose market share by supporting lgbtq+ communities they’ll follow the money. But I don’t think lgbtq+ interests are inherently incompatible with corporate interests. Why would they be? Corporations just want to sell their shit and make money, they’re usually happy to sell to anyone. It’s the fundamentalist religious nuts who are the problem and they have a grip on US politics right now for some reason, mostly through people being quiet and apathetic when they see injustice. It’s good to call out injustices and normalize sanely supporting all minorities.
Unfortunately corporations are quite willing to lose boatloads of money. They will operate at a loss for years to bankrupt rivals, pay out the nose for temp workers and trainings to avoid solidarity for unionization, waste massive amounts of labor on meetings to justify the existence of the upper end of the hierarchy, enforce 40+ hour work schedules that decrease total productivity, lose millions to the malpractice of nepo babies, invest billions into negative sum game campaign funding and advertising, etc.
Corporate leaders want vulnerable minorities to exploit, to the extent they’ve spent billions funding the election of someone who ruined their businesses with tariffs in order to make it happen.
If you’re trans, never forget that politicians that are backed by big money will sell you out the second that it’s no longer financially viable to support your rights & existence. The interests of the LGBTQ+ community are incompatible with the corporate world & corporate backed political class.
The interests of the lgbtq+ community may not be a priority for companies, and if they think they’ll lose market share by supporting lgbtq+ communities they’ll follow the money. But I don’t think lgbtq+ interests are inherently incompatible with corporate interests. Why would they be? Corporations just want to sell their shit and make money, they’re usually happy to sell to anyone. It’s the fundamentalist religious nuts who are the problem and they have a grip on US politics right now for some reason, mostly through people being quiet and apathetic when they see injustice. It’s good to call out injustices and normalize sanely supporting all minorities.
Unfortunately corporations are quite willing to lose boatloads of money. They will operate at a loss for years to bankrupt rivals, pay out the nose for temp workers and trainings to avoid solidarity for unionization, waste massive amounts of labor on meetings to justify the existence of the upper end of the hierarchy, enforce 40+ hour work schedules that decrease total productivity, lose millions to the malpractice of nepo babies, invest billions into negative sum game campaign funding and advertising, etc.
Corporate leaders want vulnerable minorities to exploit, to the extent they’ve spent billions funding the election of someone who ruined their businesses with tariffs in order to make it happen.